In the News (Tue 31 Mar 15)

The West Branch and East Branch of the Delaware River are two of the area's premier trout streams and the Pepacton and Cannonsville Reservoirs of the New York City water supply are among bass and trout fishing's best-kept secrets.

Carrying new colonizers to Delaware and even on to what was then the wild frontier of western New York State was the Catskill Turnpike, the first through route from the Hudson to the West.

It was here in Delaware County in the 1840's that the final episodes of the "Anti-Rent War" took place, bringing an end to a feudal tenant system and leading directly to the passage of the National Homestead Act.

The third USSDelaware of the United States Navy was a 74-gun ship of the line, named for the state of Delaware.

Delaware was decommissioned 10 February 1830, and lay in ordinary at Norfolk until 1833.

Delaware sailed 1 November 1841 for a tour of duty on the Brazil Station as flagship for Commodore C.

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Delaware put to sea 10 February 1828 under the command of Captain J. Downs to become the flagship of Commodore W. Crane in the Mediterranean.

Delaware sailed 1 November 1841 for a tour of duty on the Brazil Station as flagship for Commodore C. Morris.

Delaware returned to Hampton Roads 4 March 1844 and was decommissioned at Norfolk Navy Yard on the 22d.

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The first Delaware, a frigate, was built under the 13 December 1775 order of the Continental Congress in the yard of Warwick Coates of Philadelphia, Pa., under the direction of the Marine Committee.

Delaware served in the Delaware River, joining with Commodore J. Hazelwood's Pennsylvania state ships in operations which delayed the British Fleet in approaching Philadelphia and supplying the British Army.

He returned to England in 1783, was made a baronet on 18 December, of that year, became a comptroller in the navy in 1794, and retired in 1806 with a pension.

Delaware participated in two more convoy voyages in March and April, then sailed with the Grand Fleet on 24 April to reinforce the 2nd Battle Cruiser Squadron which was on convoy duty and expected contact with the enemy.

Delaware entered Norfolk Navy Yard 30 August 1923, and her crew was transferred to Colorado (BB-45)">Colorado (BB-45), a newly commissioned battleship assigned to replace Delaware in the Fleet.

Delaware was sold 5 February 1924 and scrapped in accordance with the Washington Treaty on the limitation of armaments.

Delaware sailed 1 November 1841 for a tour of duty on the Brazil Station as flagship for Commodore C. Morris.

Delaware participated in two more convoy voyages in March and April, then sailed with the Grand Fleet on 24 April to reinforce the 2d Battle Cruiser Squadron which was on convoy duty and expected contact with the enemy.

Delaware entered Norfolk Navy Yard 30 August 1923, and her crew was transferred to Colorado (BB-45), a newly commissioned battleship assigned to replace Delaware in the Fleet.

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One of the original 13 colonies, Delaware is represented by a star and a stripe on the 13 star U.S. flags.

Under the Penn proprietorship, of which modern Delaware was a part, each county was assigned a distinctive crest to be displayed with the Penn arms on the county seal.

The battleshipUSSDelaware also flew a flag with the state coat of arms on the center.

The first USSDelaware of the United States Navy was a 28-gun sailing frigate that had a short career in the American Revolutionary War.

Delaware served in the Delaware River, joining with Commodore J. Hazelwood's Pennsylvania state ships in operations which delayed the British Fleet in approaching Philadelphia and supplying the British Army.

The arrangement of the gun turrets on the first US dreadnought, USS South Carolina (B-26), with one turret firing over the other (superfiring) at each end of a compact superstructure, was far more efficient than that of any of the "pre-dreadnought" designs, and, for that matter, of HMS Dreadnought herself.

An investigation of similar guns on USS South Carolina (B-26) showed that copper deposits from the projectile driving bands had narrowed down the bores, which slowed the projectiles and thus greatly increased the barrel pressures (copper choke).

After an accident on USS Missouri (B-11) in April 1904 that saw a flare-back from a gun breech go straight to the handling room and which killed five officers and twenty nine men, automatic shutters were installed to separate the ends of the hoists.

In 1851 he undertook an extensive sounding cruise in the Atlantic on the USS Dolphin.

He was promoted to Commander in September 1855 and took command of the USS Vandalia in 1860 and was at the Cape of Good Hope when he learned of the outbreak of the Civil War.

In 1862, he was transferred to the West Gulf Blockading Squadron, and in April commanded the Corvette USS Oneida in the attacks under Flag Officer David G. Farragut on Fort Jackson and Fort St. Philip and the capture of New Orleans.

She passed before President Taft and the Secretary of the Navy in the Naval Review of 14 October 1912 and the next year visited Villefranche, France, while on a cruise with battleshipsUSS Wyoming (BB-32) and USS Utah (BB-31).

Cruising off Stavanger two days later, Delaware was attacked twice by a submarine, but each time skillful handling enabled the battleship to evade the torpedoes.

Delaware participated in two more convoy voyages in March and April, then sailed with the Grand Fleet on 24 April 1918 to reinforce the 2d Battle Cruiser Squadron which was on convoy duty and expected contact with the enemy.

The USS "Wyndham" (NCC-4676) "Saginaw" class cruiser is the last of her class to be decommissioned.

The USS "Huxley," commanded by Captain Alfred C. Bowles, is destroyed by a thermonuclear device in orbit of the planet Rampart in the Rho Ophiuchi system.

The USS "Pegasus" (NCC-53847) commanded by Captain Eric Pressman is lost near the Devolin system during a mutiny regarding the captain's experimental phasing cloaking device (in violation of the Treaty of Algeron).